Posts tagged “Betrayal At Krondor”

With Full Throttle's remastering out yesterday, it sets me off to thinking about what games I'd really like to see receive a similar treatment. It's pretty easy to list off a bunch of other LucasArts adventures, because I would ADORE to see the wonderful The Dig in big pretties, or have Sam & Max in gorgeous clear stereo sound. (Imagine the songs without the hissing!)…

Books! They're like films without pictures, or games that are all cutscene. Old people and hipsters really like them, teenagers think they're like totally lame, and quite frankly we should all read more of them. There are countless games inspired by books - most especially Tolkien, Lovecraft and early Dungeons & Dragon fiction - but surprisingly few games based directly on books. Even fewer good…

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. There are games I played in my youth. And there are games I sat next to my dad and watched him play. I've never played a game of Civilisation or UFO: Enemy Unknown, but I watched my dad play them for hours. Also…

An entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC RPGs ever released. Covering the entire history of computer role-playing games is a daunting task and attempting to place the best games in such a broad genre in any kind of order is even more daunting. Thankfully, we are equal to all tasks and below, you will find the best fifty PC RPGs of all time.

Betrayal At Krondor, an epic RPG based on the Riftwar books of Raymond E. Feist, is due this June. Developed by Dynamix (Aces of the Pacific, Ghostbusters II), from what we've seen it's going to be a mix of first-person exploration, travelling between towns in an enormous world, and third-person turn-based combat. It's an interesting mix of styles, and if you want to get a…